UK Machine Record
Stern · 2022 · at 19 UK venues.
James Bond 007 is George Gomez's take on six decades of Bond cinema, and it feels considerably more like a Bond film than many licensed machines feel like their source material. The game pulls from multiple films rather than concentrating on one incarnation of 007, with missions built around the character's most famous assignments.
The game has a very deliberate flow to it. The major shots are clearly defined, but the rules encourage you to think about how missions interact rather than simply completing whichever insert happens to be flashing.
It is particularly appropriate for the UK, where Bond is about as culturally familiar as a film licence gets. You will find it in serious UK collections and tournament environments as well as more general arcades. Think like Bond: know the mission before you start shooting.
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Silverball guide · James Bond 007
James Bond 007 gives you six villains, six henchmen, six gadgets and six weapons, and your score is mostly decided by a playfield multiplier you build almost by accident and then have to spend at the right moment.
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The Soviet rocket standing at the top left inside its wireform loop. The label at its foot is the machine explaining itself: drop targets lite locks for Bird One Multiball.
Seven lit letters across the very top of the playfield. The card under them reads: spell S-P-E-C-T-R-E to build Bird One jackpots and lite the Goldfinger target.
The silver DB5 parked on the raised lane down the right-hand side, under its own wireform.
The film titles stack up the middle of the playfield above the flippers, Diamonds Are Forever down to Dr. No, each one an insert that lights.
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Strategy tips written by players on PinTips , not by Silverball. Best-voted first.
Skill shot: Plunge ball and complete the flashing M-I-6 rollover target for 250,000.
4 Super skill shot(s): hold the left flipper and plunge. 4 violet arrows light. Complete one for 2.5M and a smart missile.
First shot in left scoop lights jetpack multiball
You can quickly backhand from the right flipper to the right orbit that helps during Grant and Attache case. Also can be useful for accessing pops to change villian and henchman, and advancing 2 different Bond women and Q branches.
Bond women playfield multipliers: complete shots to light women. Top loops increase ready multipler. Activate with violet action button.
Holding left flipper up after you catch on right flipper can help deflect into upper left scoop (pool fight scoop)
Shoot Right Ramp to start villain mode, shoot side ramp to start henchman mode.
If SPECTRE Weapon is lit, wait for the insert to land on either the orange or blue insert before shooting the Goldfinger target. The modes these two inserts correspond to can be worth 100M at max value.
In Bond…James Bond the upper side loop gives you two shots and help you complete the multiball faster
Shoot green drops to light center locks for bird 1 mb, shoot lock 3 times to start.
Bond...James Bond: play 4 modes. Bird 1 MB; Jetpack MB; 1 henchman, 1 villian. Shoot cyan arrow to start. Timed scoring, unlimited balls.
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Close-ups of the James Bond 007 playfield, with our note on what each one is showing you.
Connery's Bond, painted beside the lit film inserts.
The plastic over the eject hole: eject advances the jetpack lights.
The Aston Martin on its rail.
Photographs via the Internet Pinball Database. The captions are ours.
How James Bond 007 was sold to operators — Stern, 2022. The back is the feature list the manufacturer led with, which is a fair record of what the machine was meant to be famous for.
Front
BackManufacturer’s sales flyer — Stern’s own artwork. We haven’t been able to confirm the source of this scan.
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